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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] why pinnumber in sym pins?
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Niklas:
...
> I understand the mapping and use gschem and pcb often though. Even
> though current mechanism work I think about if it could be improved.

Ok.

Using some text in the pinnumber attribute works well enough:
like in 

P 300 200 0 200 1 0 1
{
T 275 225 5 6 1 1 0 6 1
pinnumber=-Vin
}

which gives me a sane netlist like:

0V      U1--Vin X1-1 U2--Vin 

What could be improved is that pcb could map the -Vin from the netlist
to this pin in the footprint:

a:  Pin [   0.000mm   0.000mm    2.000mm   0.500mm   2.400mm   1.000mm "-Vin" "1" "" ]

so I don't have the edit it to look like:

b:  Pin [   0.000mm   0.000mm    2.000mm   0.500mm   2.400mm   1.000mm "-Vin" "-Vin" "" ]

I.e., if not fount the "pinnumber" in the "number" field, look at the
"name" field.

Another way to do the same thing is to have two fp, one with pin
definitions like a above, and one like b.

///

What improvement did you think of ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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